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Mixtape

Cassettes were a result of kind of this constanttechnological quest to make things...

Cassettes were a result of kind of this constant
technological quest to make things smaller
and more powerful

Full Transcript

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- Cassettes were a result of
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kind of this constant technological quest
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to make things smaller and more powerful.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
32
Timestamp in Movie
00:04:55
Uploaded
May 04, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Saboteur Media,Def Jam Recordings,MTV Documentary Films,Mercury Studios

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Movie Summary

Mixtapes have an out-sized role in the emergence of hip hop around the world. Before radio play, the internet, and social media, there were mixtapes. No matter where you lived, you could pop a cassette into a tape deck, and be tra...
- The cassette made it so that you could record it - Mixtape 00:05
- The cassette made it so that you could record it
- Not just share music, but decide what music - Mixtape 00:07
- Not just share music, but decide what music
- Like, look. You're not in the streets hanging out, - Mixtape 00:05
- Like, look. You're not in the streets hanging out,
- The first time I heard a mixtape - Mixtape 00:06
- The first time I heard a mixtape
- You got all these groups that aren't really recording, - Mixtape 00:05
- You got all these groups that aren't really recording...
Their live shows are being documented on cassette. - Mixtape 00:05
Their live shows are being documented on cassette.
- Some of the first hip-hop I experienced - Mixtape 00:04
- Some of the first hip-hop I experienced
[smooth music] - Mixtape 00:05
[smooth music]
- We knew the exact feet to stand away - Mixtape 00:10
- We knew the exact feet to stand away
- If I had the newest Cold Crush Brothers tape, - Mixtape 00:08
- If I had the newest Cold Crush Brothers tape,
- ♪ We battle fantastic ♪ - Mixtape 00:12
- ♪ We battle fantastic ♪
- You have to imagine what this was in your own mind. - Mixtape 00:04
- You have to imagine what this was in your own mind.
- "Yo, yo, Murph, go get me a drink." - Mixtape 00:05
- "Yo, yo, Murph, go get me a drink."
- The cassette is actually making you more intelligent - Mixtape 00:06
- The cassette is actually making you more intelligent
- So you have to create in your own mind the scenario, - Mixtape 00:06
- So you have to create in your own mind the scenario,
- "Back up off the ropes. Back up off the ropes." - Mixtape 00:11
- "Back up off the ropes. Back up off the ropes."
- ♪ Party people, gon' get funky ♪ - Mixtape 00:11
- ♪ Party people, gon' get funky ♪
- Zulu Nation, Afrika Islam, Afrika Bambaataa, - Mixtape 00:06
- Zulu Nation, Afrika Islam, Afrika Bambaataa,
- Mr. T-Bone, Teddy Ted, Lil Black, - Mixtape 00:05
- Mr. T-Bone, Teddy Ted, Lil Black,
- So that was before-- - Mixtape 00:05
- So that was before--